when we say wonderful, we mean wow......

S.K.Y.
Look what you did, Sandra Kay Yow. Look what you did. You know, you could've been a librarian like you started out to be - maybe the greatest librarian with the highest on-time return rate of any librarian with a 38-year tenure event. You know that? What happened to teaching English, coach? By now you could've taught thousands of students to write and speak with your gentle Southern drawl. What happened to all of that, Coach Yow? Instead, young women from North Carolina to Bucharest to Moscow to Mexico to Caracas to Taipei to Brazil to Seoul to L.A. think they can do anything in basketball or otherwise-because of you. What have you done? Coach Yow, you forsook all others and took the young women of North Carolina State as your surrogate children for 34 years. What you taught them and us can't be placed in any category as simple as English or Basketball; you gave us so much more. You gave us you.

You battled with something tough, Coach; we know it. And you battled it like a dignified superhero with the ability to take decades of pain and fighting and turn them into the strength and power other people need. Like any hero, you put the needs of others before your own. You did it with a smile, you did it with your hands on your hips, you did it with your red coach's cape flapping in the wind.

You're a wonderful and extraordinary lady, Sandra Kay Yow. And when we say wonderful, we mean wow. And when we say extraordinary, we mean extra ordinary. And when we link of those pink ribbons, we think they should be huge like a blanked that covers everyone and shields us and reminds us all to be wonderful, extraordinary, dignified, powerful, strength-giving heroes just like you. See what you've done.

article in the NC State Technician- Jan 29, 09

SNOW

It started snowing here last night around midnight and is still snowing at 2:30pm.  So far we have about six inches of snow.  Which for NC is pretty much blizzard conditions and we should shut down the town for at least two days.  Luckily I didn't have to work today.  Kyle and I took Nala out to play in the snow for about 2 hours.  This is her first real snow and she loved it.

Nala trying to jump and eat the snowballs that I was throwing at her.

Me forcing Nala to stop playing for one minute so we can take a picture together.

Our apartment complex covered in snow

2 Peas in a Pod

We took this picture last June at my dad's work picnic.  It just happened to be one of the hottest days of the summer.  My sister who had just moved home from Denver was miserable.  Even though it was hot it was fun that the entire family was together.  I like this picture of me and my dad, we are 2 peas in a pod.

Finally Pages of my Finger

I finally had time to do a few pages of my finger.  Here is the journal writing:

On Tuesday, September 2 I was at flag football practice and we were doing a flag pulling drill.  I went to grab a flag and my finger got caught in a teammates shorts.  He pulled one way and I pulled the other.  My finger at the top joint went with him, but the rest of my finger went with me.  I immediately fell to the ground and grabbed my finger and pushed it back (not a pleasant feeling), but I knew I had to do that because if I saw my finger I was going to pass out.  My coach and teammates decided it was probably just a jam so I continued practicing.  I am playing with mostly undergraduate students who are nine almost ten years younger than me, so I couldn't be the old wimpy lady and kept practicing.  In only a few minutes my finger was too swollen to move, so I stayed on the field but didn't catch or pull any more flags.  I got home that night at around 9:30 and immediately iced it. 

The next morning my finger was huge and blue so I decided to go to the doctor.  I went to urgent care and the x-rays showed my finger was broken in a few places.  They made me an appointment for Thursday with an orthopedic doctor.  The doctor gave me 2 choices: have surgery or never be able to bend your finger again.  Of course I opted with the surgery.  On Friday I went for a CT scan and on Monday morning I was in for surgery.

 At the top joint of my middle finger the bone was broken and the pieces had moved.  So the result of surgery was five pins in my finger.  The pins are sticking out of my finger, but it is bandaged so couldn't see them.  Surgery went fine, but that night and the next day were awful.  I never knew a finger could hurt so badly.  At the beginning of October I went to the doctor for post-op.  And lucky me I got to see the pins for the first time, yuck.  The doctor said the finger seemed to be healing fine and I would get the pins out on Thursday, October 16, in two weeks.  I did start physical therapy on the middle joint and am supposed to go 2-3 times per week for five weeks.

Car Scraping

Here is a layout I did last week of my new car! I did a few others that I will try to post this weekend.

Walks at the New NC State Golf Course and Lake Raleigh

Today we met our friends Kelly, Adam, and their dog Harley for a walk at Lake Raleigh.  Nala and Harley ran like crazy for two hours.  We got some really funny pictures of Nala.